Vocab: 1. impudent- characterized by offensive boldness, insolent or impertinent 2. economist- a specialist in economics, 3. pectin- any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams 4. rabbi- spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law, a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher 5. threshold- doorway: the entrance through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
Summary This takes place in South Amsterdam, Holland. It starts on Tuesday, July 7, 1942. Hannah Goslar is a Jew. Her best friend was Anne Frank, also a Jew. Hannah, and all Jews, are forced to wear yellow six-pointed stars on their clothing. Nazi occupation has just begun. Jews are forbidden to work in most professions. The Goslar's used to live right next door to Anne Frank's home. The Goslar's are now living next to Hannah's grandparents. Germany has conquered Holland and everyone is tired, stressed, and scared. Mrs. Goslar has two children, Hannah, and a little girl named Gabi. Mrs. Goslar is expecting another child very soon. Everyone thinks Anne is a know-it-all. Hannah heads out to get a scale from the Frank's house as help to her mother. There are already German soldiers on the streets, waiting to pick up Jews. Whenever Hannah and Anne want to talk they whistle two notes, to let the other know it's them. So, Hannah whistles but no one answers. Finally, after a lot of knocking, a man who also lives in the same building as the Frank's answers the door. He tells them the bad news. The Frank's have left for Switzerland. It looks like they left in a hurry. Dishes still on the table, nice shoes left behind. The only things that Anne took are sheets from the bed and Anne and Hannah's scrapbooks. Anne and Hannah have their differences. Anne is much more romantic. Hannah has another really good friend name Jacque. Ilse and Hannah became friends because they go to the synagogue together. Hannah and Anne started a club named The Little Dipper Minus Two.
Artifact for Entry 1 Jewish Star Jews were forced to wear the Jewish star on their clothing to identify themselves as Jews.
~Entry 2: pages 10-19 March 20, 2011
Vocab: 1. finicky- fussy, difficult to please 2. brigade- a military formation that is typically composed of two to five regiments or battalions 3. droning- a dull humming 4. antiaircraft- designed for defense from a surface position against air attack 5. posh- classy, elegant and fashionable
Summary Jews are now banned from public places. This includes restaurants, tea shops, hotels, public parks, public swimming pools, and most shops. They could only go to Jewish-owned places. Irma is a refugee girl who the Goslar's took in. She is supposed to help out around the house, but is not right in the mind, so she really can't. Hannah and Mrs. Goslar have to help her with the simplest of tasks. Irma can't handle feeding Gabi, the Goslar's youngest child, so Hannah has to. She is very overwhelmed with Hebrew school and homework, and now the task of taking care of Gabi most of the time. Mrs. Goslar is very pale, irritable, and tired because of her pregnancy nearing the end. All Mrs. Goslar wants to do is smoke cigarettes and drink coffee. No one approves of her smoking while pregnant, but they don't want to be yelled at by her. Alfred, Hannah's boyfriend, tells Hannah some bad news. He is being sent to forced labor camp. He promises he will write to her. She promises that she will still be his girlfriend when he returns. Alfred never writes to Hannah, or his father, so they just assume he is not allowed to write to anyone. You learn about the Goslar's past. They used to live in Berlin, until the Nazis took control of Germany. The same happened to the Frank's, though they moved from Frankfurt, Germany to Holland. The Goslar's and Frank's moved to to Holland when Hannah and Anne were four years old. They had no idea how similar their pasts were until the became great friends, living next to each other. The Goslar's rent a cottage on the North Sea in the summer. All of these happy memories of her, Anne, the Frank family, and her family make her sad. Hannah is horribly worried for Anne and misses her a lot. She makes a list of all the things she will tell Anne when she returns. Everyone constantly lives in the fear of being bombed by the airplanes droning overhead.
Artifact for Entry 2 No Jews Allowed Sign This is a sign representing that no Jews are allowed.
~Entry 3: pages 20-29 March 20, 2011
Vocab 1. Luftwaffe- German air force before and during World War II 2. decrees- a rule of law issued by a head of state, legally binding command 3. herringbone- a zig zag twill weave pattern, 4. Razias- a round-up 5. cobbled- crudely or roughly assembled, put together in an improvised way
Summary Hannah is now starting school without Anne. It brings back happy memories, but it makes her sad. Two or three more children are disappearing from school every week. Hannah is worried that she might be next. 400 Jews were recently arrested in a surprise Razia. Razias have just started. Soldiers are everywhere and people are being driven off in trucks, never to be seen again. New anti-Jewish laws are made. Jewish bank accounts are frozen, anyone who didn't agree with the Nazi's are being arrested and people are being beaten up. The fear of being bombed by airplanes is constant. Food rationing has started. The Goslar's managed to get South America passports. They might be able to flee to Paraguay. Mr. Goslar also got the family onto the top of the list of people to go to the Holy Land. They're on list two out of forty, so they're very high up.
Artifact for Entry 3 Old School House This is a picture of an old school house.
~Entry 4: pages 30-39 March 24, 2011
Vocab: imperiled- at risk of becoming extinct skullcap- rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head gulden- Dutch translation of the English word guilder ersatz- German word meaning substitute or replacement hobnailed- marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded by short nails
Summary Many kids are gone from school, they don't return. Now even teachers are disappearing. Mrs. Goslar gives birth to the new baby. Sadly, both Mrs. Goslar and the new baby die during the birth. There was a big explosion. Everyone is scared that they are being bombed by the Germans. It was actually a British airplane that was carrying explosives crashing into the Carlton Hotel in the center of Amsterdam.
Artifact for Entry 4 Old Airplane This is a plane representing the airplane that crashed into the Carlton Hotel in my book.
~Entry 5: pages 40-49 March 24, 2011
Vocab: haphazardly- without care, in a random manner Sabbath- a day of rest or worship, Sunday for Christians, Saturday for most Jews and a few Christians kilos- unit of weight in metric system horde- a lot of people or things, keeping things
barrack- lodge, place to stay
Summary The Goslar's have a new neighbor. She is a Christian woman who is married to a Jewish man. Her name is Maya Goudsmit. Soldiers knocked on the Goslar's door calling for all Jews to leave their homes and get out in the street at once. The Goslar's were roughly put in a car and taken to a theater where they were guarded by armed soldiers. After they had their papers examined by an officer, they were told to go home. Irma was not so lucky. She was deported despite Mrs. Goslar's arguing. A couple weeks later, the soldiers were banging on their doors again. This time the Goslar's didn't get away safely. Every Jew is told to assemble in the streets. Since Maya is so fond of Gabi, she offers to keep Gabi until the Goslar's get back. There was no time so the Goslar's kept walking, with Gabi. They are taken to Central Railway Station and loaded into cattle cars. They arrive at a transit camp in eastern Holland called Westerbork. Hannah's father and grandfather are taken to the men's barracks. Her grandmother goes to the women's barracks. Hannah and Gabi are led to the orphanage, which was also a barrack, with some other children. After a night in the barracks, the older girls are given chores and assignments. Hannah volunteers to clean toilets because they are next to the men's barracks. She could have worked in the garden, or peeled vegetables. She volunteers for the toilets in the hopes that she will see her father and grandfather. She does see her father and grandfather a couple times a day. Hannah gets a package from Maya Goudsmit containing food and a book about a famous nurse named Florence Nightingale. The weather is getting very hot.
Artifact for Entry 5 Old Book
This is an old book. It represents the Florence Nightingale book that was sent to Hannah.
~Entry 6: pages 50-59 April 5, 2011
Vocab: 1. lustrous- bright, brilliant, glistening 2. radiant- beaming, as if light 3. S barracks- barracks which kept so called criminals 4. vermin- various small animals or insects that are pests 5. chafed- soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction
Summary Everyone is scared of Monday and Thursday nights because camp police come to each barrack and read the names of the people who are being sent to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Sobibor. The Goslar's believe that they are safe because of their Palestine document and their Paraguay passports. Right away in the mornings the people who's names have been called were sent off on a train. These people were never seen or heard from again. After two weeks, Gabi gets very sick. Hannah takes Gabi to the hospital barrack. Immediately the doctors, who are also Jewish prisoners, operate on Gabi's ears. Her whole family visits Gabi in the hospital. A rumor started spreading through the camp in November. The rumor was that the Nazis wouldn't respect any special lists and that from now on the people on lists were deported too. A Nazi policeman announced that the Palestine lists were now invalid and that everyone on those lists would be sent to the East for resettlement. He then added that only the people on the first two lists were still valid. Luckily, the Goslar's are on the second list. It is getting very cold and things are freezing up. Gabi is now getting better.
Artifact for Entry 6 Red Identification Patch This is a red patch that the S barrack prisoners would wear.
~Entry 7: pages 60-69 April 9,2011
Vocab: 1. tumultuous- noisy and disorderly 2. schnell-fast or quickly 3. grizzled- dark hairs mixed with grey or white 4. barren- an area of low fertility and habitation, bare, bleak 5. Luneburg- a town in the German state of Lower Saxony
Summary Most of the children in the orphanage didn't know where their parents were, or even if they were alive. Hannah became like a mother to some of the younger ones. Hannah's friend, Sanne Ledermann, had been arrested and sent to Westerbork. They talked a bit, but Sanne was working with the women so they didn't see each other that much. Soon after, in November, Sanne and her family got sent to Auschwitz. Also in November (maybe 1943?) Hannah finds out that her grandfather died of a sudden heart attack. Children are being deported now, too. Every name in the orphanage except Hannah's and a couple other's were called to be deported. The children in the orphanage are going crazy. On a night in January, 1944, Mr. Goslar announced that their whole family was being transported to another place, all together. Sadly, they were going to Bergen-Belsen, another camp. The Goslar's thought that Bergen-Belsen was an exchange camp, not a work camp. On the night of February 14, 1944, the Goslar's names were called to be deported. Mr. Goslar, Hannah, Gabi, and the grandmother are the Goslar family. They were put in cars and sent to the middle of nowhere. They are forced to walk a long time with armed guards and fierce German shepherd dogs making sure no one stops or misbehaves. They finally arrive at the dreaded gates of Bergen-Belsen and yet again the women go in one car, the men another.
Artifact for Entry 7 Bergen Belsen Memorial
This is a memorial to the people that died at Bergen-Belsen.
~Entry 8: pages 70-79 April 12, 2011
Vocab: 1. deloused- removing fly babies 2. quarantined-isolated, under forced isolation especially for health reasons 3. jaundice- a dangerous illness caused from poor sanitation 4. malnourishment-not having enough food to develop or function normally 5. incessantly- constantly, without interruption
Summary The truck that Hannah is in arrives at a camp called Alballalager. The mothers and children were told to climb down and line up. The people think that Alballager was a good camp because their clothes wouldn't be taken, their hair wouldn't be shaved, their family's wouldn't be separated, and numbers wouldn't be tattooed on their arms. Hannah and Gabi are moved into a barrack with a group of Greek prisoners. Gabi is very weak because she is just above the age where the youngest children get more food. The rabbi's wife began giving Gabi two glasses of milk a week to keep her alive. Gabi begins to get better. Hannah gets sick one morning. She is throwing up, has a bad cough, and is very dizzy. Hannah is scared because she has to care for not only herself, but Gabi also. She needs to get up for roll call, or she'll be shot. The two women next to her in roll call hold her up and make her look normal. At breakfast after roll call, one of the women tells Hannah that her skin is yellow. Yellow skin is a symptom of jaundice. At lunch, the thought and sight of food makes her feel sick. She closes her eyes and sees spots. When she opens her eyes a woman named Mrs. Abrahams is standing above her. Mrs. Abrahams says she will take care of Gabi while Hannah goes to the hospital. Mrs. Abrahams says that when Hannah gets out of the hospital, she would like Hannah and Gabi to join her family of seven children. Hannah is in the hospital for more than a month. The minute she can open her eyes, she is sent back to the barracks. When she gets back, she sees that Mrs. Abrahams has indeed cared for Gabi. Gabi and Hannah are part of the Abrahams family. Hannah has to work at a factory, even though she isn't yet 16. Mr. Goslar works at a factory making military shoes. He has become so weak that he needs the rabbi to help him get to work. In May, Mr. Goslar was put into the special barracks where only sick people were kept. He was overworked and undernourished. In July the grandmother was put on the list for transfer, but she asked the SS to take her off the list. They did. Everyone thought she was crazy not to leave, but her answer was simply that she couldn't leave her granddaughters. The camp is becoming way overpopulated, tents are put up for the extra people.
Artifact for Entry 8
Jaundice This is a baby with jaundice and then after treatment. Hannah had jaundice. You can tell by yellow skin or yellow eyes.
~Entry 9: pages 80-89 April 14, 2011
Vocab: 1. eiderdown- the down of the eider duck, used as stuffing for quilts and pillows 2. edema- a condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body 3. threadbare- becoming thin and tattered with age 4. raucous- making a disturbingly harsh and loud noise 5. scrounged- seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth
Summary It's November. Hannah doesn't know the exact date, but if it's the 12th, it's her 16th birthday. Beds are added in the barracks to make room for new arrivals. Instead of 300 people in Hannah's barrack, there are 600. Everyone is sleeping 2-3 per one narrow bed. Hanukkah is coming. Hannah is very worried for her father. He has become all bones because of the cutting back on food rations to feed the new arrivals. It is rumored that on the other side of the fence there were all kinds of different prisoners from different countries. Each side was forbidden to talk to the other. If they got caught talking to eachother, they were tortured or shot down. The year of 1945 starts off with rumors and fear. People are saying that Germany is losing the war. No one really knows, though. A fighter plane dropped bombs on Mr. Goslar's barracks. Luckily everyone but one man was outside. Everyone survived. Mr. Goslar is looking way worse. He gets sent to the hospital. Mrs. Abrahams tells Hannah that there are indeed Dutch people on the other side and one says she knows Hannah. Hannah sneaks out to the fence at night and she talks with a woman. It's Mrs. van Daan. She tells Hannah that Anne is here at Bergen-Belsen too.
Artifact for Entry 9 Candles represent Hannah's 16th birthday.
~Entry 10: pages 90-99 April 15, 2011
Vocab: 1. desolately- in a grief-stricken loneliness 2. improbability- not likely to be true or accurate 3. Purim- a Jewish holy day that commemorates the deliverance from massacre by Haman 4. pessimistic- expecting the worst 5. gangling- tall and thin and having long slender limbs
Summary Mrs. Van Daan brings Anne to meet Hannah so they can talk through the fence. Margot's very sick. The Frank's have been in hiding in the secret annex for 25 months. But then the Frank's got arrested, so now they are in Bergen-Belsen. On June 6, 1944, the Americans, Canadians, and British had landed in France and began attacking the Germans. At the same time, the Russians had been pushing the Germans back. Hannah finds out that Anne was in Westerbork at the same time that Hannah was. Anne doesn't know where her parents are. They sit on either side of the fence and cry. Anne has been living in the extra tents built for the new prisoners. She has no food at all. Hannah and Anne arrange to meet again the next night. Hannah flashes back on all the memories of her and Anne growing up together. Mr. Goslar isn't getting better. There's a big surprise when Hannah gets back from visiting her father in the hospital. Packages from the Red Cross have been delivered!
~Entry 11: pages 100-109 April 19, 2011
Vocab: 1. stupor- in a daze 2. handcarts- wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels 3. typhus- rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever 4. Theresienstadt- a Nazi German ghetto during World War II 5. feebly- in a halting or faint manner
Summary In the packages from the Red Cross were Swedish bread and dried fruit. Hannah immediately starts making a package for Anne. Mrs. Abrahams saw Hannah head out to the fence. Mrs. Abrahams told Hannah that she shouldn't go out because although she hadn't got caught the first time, it wouldn't be long until she did. When Hannah tells Mrs. Abrahams about Anne and her living conditions on the other side of the fence, Mrs. Abrahams adds some scraps of food to add to the package for Anne. Anne's package contained a glove, bread, dried fruit, and what Hannah had saved from the evening meal. Hannah goes out to meet Anne at the fence. Hannah throws the package over the fence to Anne. Anne starts crying because a woman ran over and stole the package from Anne. Hannah sadly heads back. Hannah goes back to the fence in a couple nights. This time Anne receives the package. It consists of bread, dried fruit, scrap food, and a pair of socks. Now every time Hannah goes out to the fence, she has a group of people waiting for her, hoping she'll make it back safely. During roll call Hannah is told that her remaining family and herself were on the exchange list to head out the next day. Mr. Goslar is very sick, but he gets up anyway and prepares to leave. Hannah has to say goodbye to Mrs. Abrahams, but she can't risk going to say goodbye to Anne. The morning they're supposed to leave, Hannah comes to get her father. She is informed that her father died during the night. The exchange has been canceled without warning. It was February 25, 1945. She is now like Anne, without any parents. Hannah is giving up on life. The only thing that keeps her alive is thinking of Gabi. Hannah finds out that the entire other side of the camp was gone and deported. Hannah's grandmother dies. The entire camp of Bergen-Belsen was being evacuated and sent to Theresienstadt.
~Entry 12: pages 110-119 April 22, 2011
Vocab: 1. strafed- the practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft 2. lice- fly babies 3. putrid- in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor 4. endurance- the power to withstand hardship or stress 5. delirium- craze: state of violent mental agitation
Summary Hannah knows she has typhus. Her case is mild, but she has bad symptoms. The whole camp is marched out to the trains. Hannah and Gabi get separated from Mrs. Abrahams and her family.They get on the trains. There are explosions and bombing noises along the way. Suddenly the train stops and the prisoners are told to get out of the train and run as far away as they can from the train. Everyone is flat on the ground. Hannah throws her body over Gabi's to protect her. The planes fly off, and everyone heads back to the trains. The train travels through Berlin, the city is burned down. The train stops in the country side and the Nazi's tell the people who are strong to go ask farmers for food. Hannah goes and gets some bread and carrots. The next stop, a couple days later, a German Nazi comes by their car and gives Gabi a cookie. Mrs. Finkle, one of Mrs. Abrahams friends, sends her son out to get food. The train leaves without him. Hannah and the other passengers assemble their most valuable possessions, for Hannah it was her Grandmother's ring, and traded them for food with a Nazi soldier. All they got was a little rabbit that they had to cook. Hannah falls asleep. When she wakes up, everyone is gone. Someone comes and tells her that the Germans had surrendered. They marched away with white flags in their hands. Hannah and Gabi go to look for food and shelter. They stop near Trobitz. They find victorious Russian soldiers who tell them to raid the Nazi's empty houses. Hannah finds a girls bedroom, puts on one of the dresses, and falls asleep in the nice warm bed.
~Entry 13: pages 120-129 April 23, 2011
Vocab: 1. emanciated- to free from hunger 2. Maastricht- the capital of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands 3. incomprehensibly- not understanding 4. Kosher- food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law 5. sanatorium- a medical facility for long-term illness
Summary Hannah meets a soldier who liberated them. He tells her that Mrs. Abrahams, her husband, and one of their sons had died shortly after liberation day. She asks about Anne and Margot Frank, but he doesn't know. The soldier hands out ration cards to everyone and sends them to the village to get food. The soldiers warned the people to eat very little and eat slowly because of them being so starved and having no nutrients. One survivor ate too much and died of diarrhea. They stay in the village area for a couple weeks. Then they are told to come to the village in the morning. They are sent in military vans to Leipzig. Other people from other concentration camps met here. A couple days later they were loaded on a Red Cross train. They arrive at a station with a sign that read Maastricht. Hannah says they are at the Dutch border. They get off and are given clean clothes and shoes. Then they are take to be examined by doctors. The doctor tells Hannah that her lungs are diseased and that she has to go to the hospital, and then a sanatorium. Hannah stayed in the hospital for many months. She gets a visitor, Otto Frank. Hannah thinks that Anne and Margot are still alive, but Otto has to tell her that he knows for sure his children didn't make it. Otto Frank tells Hannah that Jacque, Hannah's childhood friend, is on the list of survivors. He doesn't know about Ilse or Sanne, 2 more of Hannah's friends. Hannah is taken to the Joodse Invalide Hospital in Amsterdam; she is still very sick. Gabi was in an orphanage nearby, and she was doing good. Jacque, Mrs. Goudsmit, and Iet Swillens came to visit. Iet Swillens was another one of Hannah's friends. Mrs. Goudsmit brought Hannah a photo album of the Goslar family. Sanne, Ilse, Alfred, Anne, Margot, and Mrs. Frank never came back from being deported. Mr. Frank often comes and visits Hannah. Mr. Frank arranged for Hannah to go to a sanatorium in Switzerland because her only surviving member of her family, her uncle, was in Switzerland. Hannah turns seventeen on November 12, 1945. On December 5, 1945, Hannah and Gabi fly to Switzerland.
Artifact for Entry 13 Red Cross Sign The Red Cross Sign represents the train that Hannah and Gabi took to start their new lives as free Jews
~Entry 14: pages 130-139 April 23, 2011
Vocab: 1. rift- a personal or social separation 2. tarmac- a paved surface having layers of broken rocks held together with tar 3. taxied- the movement of aircraft on the ground in readiness for takeoff or after landing 4. thatched-a house roof made with dry vegetation 5. pulsating- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
Summary Mr. Frank hopes to stay in touch with Hannah. He wants to be like a father to her. He brings Hannah and Gabi to the airport. They board the airplane and start their flight to Switzerland. Hannah gets out her photo album and flashes back on each picture. We learn that Hannah wants 10 children when she grows up and Anne doesn't know how many kids she wants. Anne planned to be a writer. Margot wanted to be a nurse in Palestine. Hannah wanted to sell chocolates in a shop or teach history. On their flight, they see the Little Dipper constellation. To Hannah, this represents Sanne, Ilse, Jacque, and herself. At the tip of the tail was the bright Pole Star... this star was Anne.
Artifact for Entry 14 The Little Dipper The Little Dipper represents Hannah and her best friends during her childhood.
Memories of Anne Frank By Alison Leslie Gold
~Entry 1: pages 1-9
March 17, 2011
Vocab:
1. impudent- characterized by offensive boldness, insolent or impertinent
2. economist- a specialist in economics,
3. pectin- any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams
4. rabbi- spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law, a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher
5. threshold- doorway: the entrance through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
Summary
This takes place in South Amsterdam, Holland. It starts on Tuesday, July 7, 1942. Hannah Goslar is a Jew. Her best friend was Anne Frank, also a Jew. Hannah, and all Jews, are forced to wear yellow six-pointed stars on their clothing. Nazi occupation has just begun. Jews are forbidden to work in most professions. The Goslar's used to live right next door to Anne Frank's home. The Goslar's are now living next to Hannah's grandparents. Germany has conquered Holland and everyone is tired, stressed, and scared. Mrs. Goslar has two children, Hannah, and a little girl named Gabi. Mrs. Goslar is expecting another child very soon. Everyone thinks Anne is a know-it-all. Hannah heads out to get a scale from the Frank's house as help to her mother. There are already German soldiers on the streets, waiting to pick up Jews. Whenever Hannah and Anne want to talk they whistle two notes, to let the other know it's them. So, Hannah whistles but no one answers. Finally, after a lot of knocking, a man who also lives in the same building as the Frank's answers the door. He tells them the bad news. The Frank's have left for Switzerland. It looks like they left in a hurry. Dishes still on the table, nice shoes left behind. The only things that Anne took are sheets from the bed and Anne and Hannah's scrapbooks. Anne and Hannah have their differences. Anne is much more romantic. Hannah has another really good friend name Jacque. Ilse and Hannah became friends because they go to the synagogue together. Hannah and Anne started a club named The Little Dipper Minus Two.
Artifact for Entry 1
Jewish Star
Jews were forced to wear the Jewish star on their clothing to identify themselves as Jews.
~Entry 2: pages 10-19
March 20, 2011
Vocab:
1. finicky- fussy, difficult to please
2. brigade- a military formation that is typically composed of two to five regiments or battalions
3. droning- a dull humming
4. antiaircraft- designed for defense from a surface position against air attack
5. posh- classy, elegant and fashionable
Summary
Jews are now banned from public places. This includes restaurants, tea shops, hotels, public parks, public swimming pools, and most shops. They could only go to Jewish-owned places. Irma is a refugee girl who the Goslar's took in. She is supposed to help out around the house, but is not right in the mind, so she really can't. Hannah and Mrs. Goslar have to help her with the simplest of tasks. Irma can't handle feeding Gabi, the Goslar's youngest child, so Hannah has to. She is very overwhelmed with Hebrew school and homework, and now the task of taking care of Gabi most of the time. Mrs. Goslar is very pale, irritable, and tired because of her pregnancy nearing the end. All Mrs. Goslar wants to do is smoke cigarettes and drink coffee. No one approves of her smoking while pregnant, but they don't want to be yelled at by her. Alfred, Hannah's boyfriend, tells Hannah some bad news. He is being sent to forced labor camp. He promises he will write to her. She promises that she will still be his girlfriend when he returns. Alfred never writes to Hannah, or his father, so they just assume he is not allowed to write to anyone. You learn about the Goslar's past. They used to live in Berlin, until the Nazis took control of Germany. The same happened to the Frank's, though they moved from Frankfurt, Germany to Holland. The Goslar's and Frank's moved to to Holland when Hannah and Anne were four years old. They had no idea how similar their pasts were until the became great friends, living next to each other. The Goslar's rent a cottage on the North Sea in the summer. All of these happy memories of her, Anne, the Frank family, and her family make her sad. Hannah is horribly worried for Anne and misses her a lot. She makes a list of all the things she will tell Anne when she returns. Everyone constantly lives in the fear of being bombed by the airplanes droning overhead.
Artifact for Entry 2
No Jews Allowed Sign
This is a sign representing that no Jews are allowed.
~Entry 3: pages 20-29
March 20, 2011
Vocab
1. Luftwaffe- German air force before and during World War II
2. decrees- a rule of law issued by a head of state, legally binding command
3. herringbone- a zig zag twill weave pattern,
4. Razias- a round-up
5. cobbled- crudely or roughly assembled, put together in an improvised way
Summary
Hannah is now starting school without Anne. It brings back happy memories, but it makes her sad. Two or three more children are disappearing from school every week. Hannah is worried that she might be next. 400 Jews were recently arrested in a surprise Razia. Razias have just started. Soldiers are everywhere and people are being driven off in trucks, never to be seen again. New anti-Jewish laws are made. Jewish bank accounts are frozen, anyone who didn't agree with the Nazi's are being arrested and people are being beaten up. The fear of being bombed by airplanes is constant. Food rationing has started. The Goslar's managed to get South America passports. They might be able to flee to Paraguay. Mr. Goslar also got the family onto the top of the list of people to go to the Holy Land. They're on list two out of forty, so they're very high up.
Artifact for Entry 3
Old School House
This is a picture of an old school house.
~Entry 4: pages 30-39
March 24, 2011
Vocab:
imperiled- at risk of becoming extinct
skullcap- rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head
gulden- Dutch translation of the English word guilder
ersatz- German word meaning substitute or replacement
hobnailed- marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded by short nails
Summary
Many kids are gone from school, they don't return. Now even teachers are disappearing. Mrs. Goslar gives birth to the new baby. Sadly, both Mrs. Goslar and the new baby die during the birth. There was a big explosion. Everyone is scared that they are being bombed by the Germans. It was actually a British airplane that was carrying explosives crashing into the Carlton Hotel in the center of Amsterdam.
Artifact for Entry 4
Old Airplane
This is a plane representing the airplane that crashed into the Carlton Hotel in my book.
~Entry 5: pages 40-49
March 24, 2011
Vocab:
haphazardly- without care, in a random manner
Sabbath- a day of rest or worship, Sunday for Christians, Saturday for most Jews and a few Christians
kilos- unit of weight in metric system
horde- a lot of people or things, keeping things
barrack- lodge, place to stay
Summary
The Goslar's have a new neighbor. She is a Christian woman who is married to a Jewish man. Her name is Maya Goudsmit. Soldiers knocked on the Goslar's door calling for all Jews to leave their homes and get out in the street at once. The Goslar's were roughly put in a car and taken to a theater where they were guarded by armed soldiers. After they had their papers examined by an officer, they were told to go home. Irma was not so lucky. She was deported despite Mrs. Goslar's arguing. A couple weeks later, the soldiers were banging on their doors again. This time the Goslar's didn't get away safely. Every Jew is told to assemble in the streets. Since Maya is so fond of Gabi, she offers to keep Gabi until the Goslar's get back. There was no time so the Goslar's kept walking, with Gabi. They are taken to Central Railway Station and loaded into cattle cars. They arrive at a transit camp in eastern Holland called Westerbork. Hannah's father and grandfather are taken to the men's barracks. Her grandmother goes to the women's barracks. Hannah and Gabi are led to the orphanage, which was also a barrack, with some other children. After a night in the barracks, the older girls are given chores and assignments. Hannah volunteers to clean toilets because they are next to the men's barracks. She could have worked in the garden, or peeled vegetables. She volunteers for the toilets in the hopes that she will see her father and grandfather. She does see her father and grandfather a couple times a day. Hannah gets a package from Maya Goudsmit containing food and a book about a famous nurse named Florence Nightingale. The weather is getting very hot.
Artifact for Entry 5
Old Book
This is an old book. It represents the Florence Nightingale book that was sent to Hannah.
~Entry 6: pages 50-59
April 5, 2011
Vocab:
1. lustrous- bright, brilliant, glistening
2. radiant- beaming, as if light
3. S barracks- barracks which kept so called criminals
4. vermin- various small animals or insects that are pests
5. chafed- soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction
Summary
Everyone is scared of Monday and Thursday nights because camp police come to each barrack and read the names of the people who are being sent to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Sobibor. The Goslar's believe that they are safe because of their Palestine document and their Paraguay passports. Right away in the mornings the people who's names have been called were sent off on a train. These people were never seen or heard from again. After two weeks, Gabi gets very sick. Hannah takes Gabi to the hospital barrack. Immediately the doctors, who are also Jewish prisoners, operate on Gabi's ears. Her whole family visits Gabi in the hospital. A rumor started spreading through the camp in November. The rumor was that the Nazis wouldn't respect any special lists and that from now on the people on lists were deported too. A Nazi policeman announced that the Palestine lists were now invalid and that everyone on those lists would be sent to the East for resettlement. He then added that only the people on the first two lists were still valid. Luckily, the Goslar's are on the second list. It is getting very cold and things are freezing up. Gabi is now getting better.
Artifact for Entry 6
Red Identification Patch
This is a red patch that the S barrack prisoners would wear.
~Entry 7: pages 60-69
April 9,2011
Vocab:
1. tumultuous- noisy and disorderly
2. schnell-fast or quickly
3. grizzled- dark hairs mixed with grey or white
4. barren- an area of low fertility and habitation, bare, bleak
5. Luneburg- a town in the German state of Lower Saxony
Summary
Most of the children in the orphanage didn't know where their parents were, or even if they were alive. Hannah became like a mother to some of the younger ones. Hannah's friend, Sanne Ledermann, had been arrested and sent to Westerbork. They talked a bit, but Sanne was working with the women so they didn't see each other that much. Soon after, in November, Sanne and her family got sent to Auschwitz. Also in November (maybe 1943?) Hannah finds out that her grandfather died of a sudden heart attack. Children are being deported now, too. Every name in the orphanage except Hannah's and a couple other's were called to be deported. The children in the orphanage are going crazy. On a night in January, 1944, Mr. Goslar announced that their whole family was being transported to another place, all together. Sadly, they were going to Bergen-Belsen, another camp. The Goslar's thought that Bergen-Belsen was an exchange camp, not a work camp. On the night of February 14, 1944, the Goslar's names were called to be deported. Mr. Goslar, Hannah, Gabi, and the grandmother are the Goslar family. They were put in cars and sent to the middle of nowhere. They are forced to walk a long time with armed guards and fierce German shepherd dogs making sure no one stops or misbehaves. They finally arrive at the dreaded gates of Bergen-Belsen and yet again the women go in one car, the men another.
Artifact for Entry 7
Bergen Belsen Memorial
This is a memorial to the people that died at Bergen-Belsen.
~Entry 8: pages 70-79
April 12, 2011
Vocab:
1. deloused- removing fly babies
2. quarantined-isolated, under forced isolation especially for health reasons
3. jaundice- a dangerous illness caused from poor sanitation
4. malnourishment-not having enough food to develop or function normally
5. incessantly- constantly, without interruption
Summary
The truck that Hannah is in arrives at a camp called Alballalager. The mothers and children were told to climb down and line up. The people think that Alballager was a good camp because their clothes wouldn't be taken, their hair wouldn't be shaved, their family's wouldn't be separated, and numbers wouldn't be tattooed on their arms. Hannah and Gabi are moved into a barrack with a group of Greek prisoners. Gabi is very weak because she is just above the age where the youngest children get more food. The rabbi's wife began giving Gabi two glasses of milk a week to keep her alive. Gabi begins to get better. Hannah gets sick one morning. She is throwing up, has a bad cough, and is very dizzy. Hannah is scared because she has to care for not only herself, but Gabi also. She needs to get up for roll call, or she'll be shot. The two women next to her in roll call hold her up and make her look normal. At breakfast after roll call, one of the women tells Hannah that her skin is yellow. Yellow skin is a symptom of jaundice. At lunch, the thought and sight of food makes her feel sick. She closes her eyes and sees spots. When she opens her eyes a woman named Mrs. Abrahams is standing above her. Mrs. Abrahams says she will take care of Gabi while Hannah goes to the hospital. Mrs. Abrahams says that when Hannah gets out of the hospital, she would like Hannah and Gabi to join her family of seven children. Hannah is in the hospital for more than a month. The minute she can open her eyes, she is sent back to the barracks. When she gets back, she sees that Mrs. Abrahams has indeed cared for Gabi. Gabi and Hannah are part of the Abrahams family. Hannah has to work at a factory, even though she isn't yet 16. Mr. Goslar works at a factory making military shoes. He has become so weak that he needs the rabbi to help him get to work. In May, Mr. Goslar was put into the special barracks where only sick people were kept. He was overworked and undernourished. In July the grandmother was put on the list for transfer, but she asked the SS to take her off the list. They did. Everyone thought she was crazy not to leave, but her answer was simply that she couldn't leave her granddaughters. The camp is becoming way overpopulated, tents are put up for the extra people.
Artifact for Entry 8
Jaundice
This is a baby with jaundice and then after treatment. Hannah had jaundice. You can tell by yellow skin or yellow eyes.
~Entry 9: pages 80-89
April 14, 2011
Vocab:
1. eiderdown- the down of the eider duck, used as stuffing for quilts and pillows
2. edema- a condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body
3. threadbare- becoming thin and tattered with age
4. raucous- making a disturbingly harsh and loud noise
5. scrounged- seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth
Summary
It's November. Hannah doesn't know the exact date, but if it's the 12th, it's her 16th birthday. Beds are added in the barracks to make room for new arrivals. Instead of 300 people in Hannah's barrack, there are 600. Everyone is sleeping 2-3 per one narrow bed. Hanukkah is coming. Hannah is very worried for her father. He has become all bones because of the cutting back on food rations to feed the new arrivals. It is rumored that on the other side of the fence there were all kinds of different prisoners from different countries. Each side was forbidden to talk to the other. If they got caught talking to eachother, they were tortured or shot down. The year of 1945 starts off with rumors and fear. People are saying that Germany is losing the war. No one really knows, though. A fighter plane dropped bombs on Mr. Goslar's barracks. Luckily everyone but one man was outside. Everyone survived. Mr. Goslar is looking way worse. He gets sent to the hospital. Mrs. Abrahams tells Hannah that there are indeed Dutch people on the other side and one says she knows Hannah. Hannah sneaks out to the fence at night and she talks with a woman. It's Mrs. van Daan. She tells Hannah that Anne is here at Bergen-Belsen too.
Artifact for Entry 9
Candles represent Hannah's 16th birthday.
~Entry 10: pages 90-99
April 15, 2011
Vocab:
1. desolately- in a grief-stricken loneliness
2. improbability- not likely to be true or accurate
3. Purim- a Jewish holy day that commemorates the deliverance from massacre by Haman
4. pessimistic- expecting the worst
5. gangling- tall and thin and having long slender limbs
Summary
Mrs. Van Daan brings Anne to meet Hannah so they can talk through the fence. Margot's very sick. The Frank's have been in hiding in the secret annex for 25 months. But then the Frank's got arrested, so now they are in Bergen-Belsen. On June 6, 1944, the Americans, Canadians, and British had landed in France and began attacking the Germans. At the same time, the Russians had been pushing the Germans back. Hannah finds out that Anne was in Westerbork at the same time that Hannah was. Anne doesn't know where her parents are. They sit on either side of the fence and cry. Anne has been living in the extra tents built for the new prisoners. She has no food at all. Hannah and Anne arrange to meet again the next night. Hannah flashes back on all the memories of her and Anne growing up together. Mr. Goslar isn't getting better. There's a big surprise when Hannah gets back from visiting her father in the hospital. Packages from the Red Cross have been delivered!
~Entry 11: pages 100-109
April 19, 2011
Vocab:
1. stupor- in a daze
2. handcarts- wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels
3. typhus- rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
4. Theresienstadt- a Nazi German ghetto during World War II
5. feebly- in a halting or faint manner
Summary
In the packages from the Red Cross were Swedish bread and dried fruit. Hannah immediately starts making a package for Anne. Mrs. Abrahams saw Hannah head out to the fence. Mrs. Abrahams told Hannah that she shouldn't go out because although she hadn't got caught the first time, it wouldn't be long until she did. When Hannah tells Mrs. Abrahams about Anne and her living conditions on the other side of the fence, Mrs. Abrahams adds some scraps of food to add to the package for Anne. Anne's package contained a glove, bread, dried fruit, and what Hannah had saved from the evening meal. Hannah goes out to meet Anne at the fence. Hannah throws the package over the fence to Anne. Anne starts crying because a woman ran over and stole the package from Anne. Hannah sadly heads back. Hannah goes back to the fence in a couple nights. This time Anne receives the package. It consists of bread, dried fruit, scrap food, and a pair of socks. Now every time Hannah goes out to the fence, she has a group of people waiting for her, hoping she'll make it back safely. During roll call Hannah is told that her remaining family and herself were on the exchange list to head out the next day. Mr. Goslar is very sick, but he gets up anyway and prepares to leave. Hannah has to say goodbye to Mrs. Abrahams, but she can't risk going to say goodbye to Anne. The morning they're supposed to leave, Hannah comes to get her father. She is informed that her father died during the night. The exchange has been canceled without warning. It was February 25, 1945. She is now like Anne, without any parents. Hannah is giving up on life. The only thing that keeps her alive is thinking of Gabi. Hannah finds out that the entire other side of the camp was gone and deported. Hannah's grandmother dies. The entire camp of Bergen-Belsen was being evacuated and sent to Theresienstadt.
~Entry 12: pages 110-119
April 22, 2011
Vocab:
1. strafed- the practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft
2. lice- fly babies
3. putrid- in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
4. endurance- the power to withstand hardship or stress
5. delirium- craze: state of violent mental agitation
Summary
Hannah knows she has typhus. Her case is mild, but she has bad symptoms. The whole camp is marched out to the trains. Hannah and Gabi get separated from Mrs. Abrahams and her family.They get on the trains. There are explosions and bombing noises along the way. Suddenly the train stops and the prisoners are told to get out of the train and run as far away as they can from the train. Everyone is flat on the ground. Hannah throws her body over Gabi's to protect her. The planes fly off, and everyone heads back to the trains. The train travels through Berlin, the city is burned down. The train stops in the country side and the Nazi's tell the people who are strong to go ask farmers for food. Hannah goes and gets some bread and carrots. The next stop, a couple days later, a German Nazi comes by their car and gives Gabi a cookie. Mrs. Finkle, one of Mrs. Abrahams friends, sends her son out to get food. The train leaves without him. Hannah and the other passengers assemble their most valuable possessions, for Hannah it was her Grandmother's ring, and traded them for food with a Nazi soldier. All they got was a little rabbit that they had to cook. Hannah falls asleep. When she wakes up, everyone is gone. Someone comes and tells her that the Germans had surrendered. They marched away with white flags in their hands. Hannah and Gabi go to look for food and shelter. They stop near Trobitz. They find victorious Russian soldiers who tell them to raid the Nazi's empty houses. Hannah finds a girls bedroom, puts on one of the dresses, and falls asleep in the nice warm bed.
~Entry 13: pages 120-129
April 23, 2011
Vocab:
1. emanciated- to free from hunger
2. Maastricht- the capital of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands
3. incomprehensibly- not understanding
4. Kosher- food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
5. sanatorium- a medical facility for long-term illness
Summary
Hannah meets a soldier who liberated them. He tells her that Mrs. Abrahams, her husband, and one of their sons had died shortly after liberation day. She asks about Anne and Margot Frank, but he doesn't know. The soldier hands out ration cards to everyone and sends them to the village to get food. The soldiers warned the people to eat very little and eat slowly because of them being so starved and having no nutrients. One survivor ate too much and died of diarrhea. They stay in the village area for a couple weeks. Then they are told to come to the village in the morning. They are sent in military vans to Leipzig. Other people from other concentration camps met here. A couple days later they were loaded on a Red Cross train. They arrive at a station with a sign that read Maastricht. Hannah says they are at the Dutch border. They get off and are given clean clothes and shoes. Then they are take to be examined by doctors. The doctor tells Hannah that her lungs are diseased and that she has to go to the hospital, and then a sanatorium. Hannah stayed in the hospital for many months. She gets a visitor, Otto Frank. Hannah thinks that Anne and Margot are still alive, but Otto has to tell her that he knows for sure his children didn't make it. Otto Frank tells Hannah that Jacque, Hannah's childhood friend, is on the list of survivors. He doesn't know about Ilse or Sanne, 2 more of Hannah's friends. Hannah is taken to the Joodse Invalide Hospital in Amsterdam; she is still very sick. Gabi was in an orphanage nearby, and she was doing good. Jacque, Mrs. Goudsmit, and Iet Swillens came to visit. Iet Swillens was another one of Hannah's friends. Mrs. Goudsmit brought Hannah a photo album of the Goslar family. Sanne, Ilse, Alfred, Anne, Margot, and Mrs. Frank never came back from being deported. Mr. Frank often comes and visits Hannah. Mr. Frank arranged for Hannah to go to a sanatorium in Switzerland because her only surviving member of her family, her uncle, was in Switzerland. Hannah turns seventeen on November 12, 1945. On December 5, 1945, Hannah and Gabi fly to Switzerland.
Artifact for Entry 13
Red Cross Sign
The Red Cross Sign represents the train that Hannah and Gabi took to start their new lives as free Jews
~Entry 14: pages 130-139
April 23, 2011
Vocab:
1. rift- a personal or social separation
2. tarmac- a paved surface having layers of broken rocks held together with tar
3. taxied- the movement of aircraft on the ground in readiness for takeoff or after landing
4. thatched-a house roof made with dry vegetation
5. pulsating- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
Summary
Mr. Frank hopes to stay in touch with Hannah. He wants to be like a father to her. He brings Hannah and Gabi to the airport. They board the airplane and start their flight to Switzerland. Hannah gets out her photo album and flashes back on each picture. We learn that Hannah wants 10 children when she grows up and Anne doesn't know how many kids she wants. Anne planned to be a writer. Margot wanted to be a nurse in Palestine. Hannah wanted to sell chocolates in a shop or teach history. On their flight, they see the Little Dipper constellation. To Hannah, this represents Sanne, Ilse, Jacque, and herself. At the tip of the tail was the bright Pole Star... this star was Anne.
Artifact for Entry 14
The Little Dipper
The Little Dipper represents Hannah and her best friends during her childhood.
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